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Citrix XenApp 4.5: Installation on Windows 2003 Server
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Monday, 13 April 2009 15:08

Let's start of with some simple though less documented installation. Citrix XenApp 4.5 is one of the installation with which a decent and standardized terminal server environment starts. Whenever we can say that all installations of Citrix XenApp 4.5 are done in the same fashion the farm will be as stable as can be. This document extensively used scripts which need to stored on a network location so they can be run from any server going to be installed in the Citrix XenApp 4.5 farm. Good luck.........

Within this document we create the following configurations:

  1. Citrix XenApp 4.5 for Windows 2003 Server.

Also the following Citrix Datastore configurations will be used:

  1. MS SQL 2000;
  2. MS SQL 2005.

Considerations

  1. Because we need to install these server roles a consideration would be to create a file share on the network with the installation files of Windows 2003 Server. You can then later use this location within a Windows 2003 Server installation's registry without having to put in the installation Cd-rom or DVD every time we need to add some serverroles. The share location needs to have the I386 folder of the installation Cd-rom/DVD

Use the following script to set the installation files within the Windows 2003 Server registry:

:: --------------------------------------------------
:: SET SOURCEPATHS TO Windows Server 2003 Installation Files
:: --------------------------------------------------

%~dp0REG UPDATE "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\SourcePath"="\\%File-Server%\%Share%\\"
%~dp0REG UPDATE "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\ServicePackSourcePath"="\\%File-Server%\%Share%" 

Use the REG.EXE from the Windows 2003 Server Resouce Kit.

    2.   Store all files and scripts on a network location. In this we can access the scripts from any to be installed server.

 

 

Installing Citrix XenApp 4.5 for Windows 2003 Server

Within a Citrix XenApp farm we have the following roles:

  • Citrix License Server;
    • This server is dedicated as Citrix License server. Often this is shared with the MS Terminal Server License Server role.
  • Citrix XenApp Datacollector server;
    • This server is dedicated for updating farm settings to the Citrix Datastore.
  • Citrix Member server
    • These server will be joined to the farm and are going to be used to host applications which are published within the Citrix XenApp farm.
  • Citrix Webinterface server;
    • This server will provide web access to the published application/desktops within the Citrix XenApp farm. 

As this would become a rather long document I have devided the document into serveral parts. Each part will describe the installation of a Citrix XenApp role. Please continue to:

 

All seperate articles together concludes the installation of all Citrix XenApp 4.5 roles within a Citrix XenApp 4.5 farm. Now that we can deploy every single part we can start configuring and using the Citrix XenApp farm. Hopefully this guide will get you where you want to and that is a working and standardized Citrix XenApp 4.5 farm.

Regards Robert Maijen

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